Getting The Vaccine

Have you received your COVID-19 Vaccine yet? Have you been able to make an appointment? Many of my colleagues are taking selfies of their appointment confirmations on facebook and instagram. They post texts with the date. They take pictures of their vaccinated arm. theyt brag and dance and show it all off on social media while people like myself spent random periods of time updating the New York State Appointment  sites hoping to get in.

no appointments available.
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no appointments available
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no appointments...

fuck this!

And then I give up until the next time my kids aren't calling me or I don't have an assignment to get in or a deadline to meet and i hit the update button again. 

I receive a  the text from Shaun - they're putting out new appointments at 4 o'clock! 
It's 3:55. SHIT!

I plug in the url, race with my hunt and peck typing fingers to input the info they need. I've only typed in this info a thousand times already - the eligibility site, the Walgreens, the CVS, Walmart - I should have the info on a speed dial one-press key on the laptop at this point.

I'd even try the new Popeyes Chicken place that opened in our area. Maybe they had vaccination appointments with their 8-piece spicy chicken special!

Soon I'll be huddled in back of a dock-in-the-box, hiding behind a dumpster so I can steal the syringes they toss, shoot one into my arm and hope to get the last drops of vaccine into my veins. I'll probably get someone else's blood mixed in with it. Then I'll turn into some blood-poisoned raging monster, hungry for flesh or blood, wandering the landscape looking for my next fix - human blood.

It's the start of something - maybe a new horrific zombie pandemic. God knows we have enough examples of zombie scenarios on TV to imagine how anyone of them could possibly come true.

I'm thinking it could start from desperation - trying to get a vaccine that we are unable to sign up for. 

No appointment available.
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No appointment available.
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Appointment available!!
At last.
The next zombie apocalypse will have to wait.





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